Saturday, May 14, 2016

Global sea-level expert John Church made to walk the plank by CSIRO and other top stories.

  • Global sea-level expert John Church made to walk the plank by CSIRO

    Global sea-level expert John Church made to walk the plank by CSIRO
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. What the CSIRO cuts mean for Australia CSIRO's plans to shed 275 staff will impact upon our understanding of how climate change is going to affect Australia, explains Fairfax's Peter Hannam. PT2M22S 620 349 For John Church, a leading authority on sea-level rise caused by global warming, there was much that was fitting – and yet callous – about being sacked at sea.The veteran scientist was well into one of dozens of research voyages he had taken s..
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  • Metal-poor galaxy could help test the Big Bang theory

    Metal-poor galaxy could help test the Big Bang theory
    Space Metal-poor galaxy could help test the Big Bang theory Anthony Wood May 13, 2016 A team of astronomers has discovered a faint blue dwarf galaxy nicknamed Leoncino or the "little lion," that could be used as a tool to test the Big Bang Theory. The little lion is the most metal-poor galaxy ever discovered, meaning that it could act as a time capsule, allowing scientists to glimpse the c..
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  • Genes linked to educational attainment expressed in the brain during prenatal development - News

    Genes linked to educational attainment expressed in the brain during prenatal development - News
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  • Newly discovered microbe does something textbooks say is impossible: it lives without mitochondria

    Newly discovered microbe does something textbooks say is impossible: it lives without mitochondria
    According to established scientific knowledge, complex cells (called eukaryotic cells) can't survive without mitochondria - tiny organelles that control respiration and power movement and growth. You can think of them as tiny batteries converting energy so that cells can go about their business, but they perform other key jobs, too. They are, as the common adage goes, the powerhouse of the cell.  Now, scientists working in Canada and the Czech Republic have made a surprising discovery: a eukary..
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  • We've Measured The Smallest Ever Forces Between Atoms

    We've Measured The Smallest Ever Forces Between Atoms
    We've Measured The Smallest Ever Forces Between Atoms Cast your mind back to high school chemistry and you might remember the van der Waals force: The weak bond between molecules, caused by the way their electrons shift at the atomic level. Now, for the first time, those tiny forces have been measured between two atoms. Image: University of Basel, Department of Physics Van der Waals forces are caused by fluctuating electric fields around molecules and atoms, which can cause small attractive o..
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  • WATCH: Here are the limits of humanity's space exploration

    WATCH: Here are the limits of humanity's space exploration
    VIDEO When it comes to space exploration, how far can we actually go? Is there a true limit, even with the sci-fi tech of the future, to humanity’s reach beyond Earth?  As the Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell video above explains, humanity lives in a small area of the Milky Way - an average spiral galaxy that’s about 100,000 light-years across. Like many other spiral galaxies, it's full of stars, planets, gases, and dark energy, with a supermassive black hole in the centre. Though we might think of o..
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  • Amazing footage of dolphins attacking a shark filmed by drone

    Amazing footage of dolphins attacking a shark filmed by drone
    Amazing footage of dolphins attacking a shark filmed by drone May 13, 2016 By Jayson MacLean Leave a Comment A drone operator has captured (see below) rare footage of four false killer whales hunting and catching a young shark off the coast of Sydney, Australia. One of the least studied members of the dolphin family, false killer whales are like their better known cousin the killer whale in that they hunt both other mammals and fish for food. And even though they range widely throughout tropical..
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  • Research Suggests Climate Change May Have Contributed To Extinction Of Neanderthals

    Research Suggests Climate Change May Have Contributed To Extinction Of Neanderthals
    (Newsroom America) -- A researcher at the University of Colorado Denver has found that Neanderthals in Europe showed signs of nutritional stress during periods of extreme cold, suggesting climate change may have contributed to their demise around 40,000 years ago. Jamie Hodgkins, a zooarchaeologist and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at CU Denver, analyzed the remains of prey animals and found that Neanderthals worked especially hard to extract every calorie from the meat a..
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